The free Caribbean Debuts Digit features excerpts from four great debut works of fiction in our catalog: Drifting by Katia D. Ulysse, The Night of the Rambler by Montague Kobbé, The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave (Haiti), and John Crow’s Devil by Marlon James.
Akashic recruits Danticat, one of the truly great contemporary writers, to edit this timely volume featuring stories set both before and after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
Kimani reimagines the rise and fall of colonialism in Africa by telling the story of the birth of Kenya’s railroad.
4/25/18 – 4/29/18
Join Katia D. Ulysse (Mouths Don’t Speak) at the Bocas Lit Fest. Full details TBA.
4/28/18, 3:00pm
Join author Theasa Tuohy and Kaylie Jones Books for the New York hometown launch event for Flying Jenny at the historic Jefferson Market Library (Willa Cather Community Reading Room).
On the April 9 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, mom-to-be and chart-topping artist Cardi B read a verse of our best-selling gift book Go the Fuck to Sleep! Check out the video below, and click on the button to buy a copy of Go the Fuck to Sleep through our website (signed by both the author, Adam […]
We are thrilled that two of our debut titles from 2017 are finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards! Patricia A. Smith’s The Year of Needy Girls on our Kaylie Jones Books imprint has been named a finalist in the category of Lesbian Fiction, and Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts is a finalist in LGBTQ SF/F/Horror. Congratulations […]
